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The Untapped Potential Project (UP2) engages community partners—families, employers, labor leaders, and policymakers—in our mission to design, build, and operate high-performing private schools to serve low-income students in communities of color. OUR WORK

1) Community Engagement: We mobilize a broad, diverse, and influential coalition of stakeholders to demonstrate citizen demand for highly effe

ctive, career-focused education pathways.

2) School Development: We educate and train students through a new network of tuition-free private CTE schools that provide rigorous academics, expert-level skills training, real-world work experiences, and placement into quality jobs.

3) Policy Change: We advocate for the state policy changes needed to accommodate and properly fund CTE training at the K-12 level through private schools.

A new, in-depth reporting project finds that most of the students in lower-level CTE offerings are kids of color, while ...
11/12/2020

A new, in-depth reporting project finds that most of the students in lower-level CTE offerings are kids of color, while those in the more promising career-oriented STEM classes are primarily white kids. This has to stop, says UP2's Jason Gaulden.

A new, in-depth reporting project finds that most of the students in lower-level CTE offerings are kids of color, while those in the more promising career-oriented STEM classes are primarily white kids. This has to stop.

A new national study validates everything we are striving for at UP2. Read it now!
10/20/2020

A new national study validates everything we are striving for at UP2. Read it now!

This is where we are going: Five years after completing the FAME program, graduates’ median earnings were nearly $98,000 -- $45,000 a year more than the earnings of other career and technical education graduates from the same colleges.

Let’s seize the moment and make sure that a typical day in a typical high school no longer consists of six or seven hour...
10/13/2020

Let’s seize the moment and make sure that a typical day in a typical high school no longer consists of six or seven hours trapped in the often suffocating confines of a classroom. Let’s take down the walls that define and constrain schools and open students to experiences the world has to offer. The latest from Jason Gaulden:

Let’s seize the moment and make sure that a typical day in a typical high school no longer consists of six or seven hours trapped in the often suffocating confines of a classroom. Let’s take down the walls that define and constrain schools and open students to experiences the world has to offer.

There’s no way to sugarcoat this: As long as schools are fully or partially shuttered, all of the opportunity gaps that ...
08/26/2020

There’s no way to sugarcoat this: As long as schools are fully or partially shuttered, all of the opportunity gaps that plague us will widen, and the students who most need hands-on, individualized attention will suffer most.

There’s no way to sugarcoat this: As long as schools are fully or partially shuttered, all of the opportunity gaps that plague us will widen, and the students who most need hands-on, individualized attention will suffer most.

One of the primary purposes of high school over the past century has been to help young people build relationships that...
08/19/2020

One of the primary purposes of high school over the past century has been to help young people build relationships that help accumulate social capital. On one level, schools have done this well. But on another, they have failed too many of their students.

One of the primary purposes of high school over the past century has been to help young people build relationships that help accumulate social capital. On one level, schools have done this well. But on another, they have failed too many of their students.

Ranken, a private, nonprofit degree-granting institution of higher learning, has been educating young adults from across...
08/11/2020

Ranken, a private, nonprofit degree-granting institution of higher learning, has been educating young adults from across the country at its St. Louis campus for more than a century.

Ranken, a private, nonprofit degree-granting institution of higher learning, has been educating young adults from across the country at its St. Louis campus for more than a century. Recently, it opened a second campus in Wentzville, Mo., 40 miles northwest of St. Louis. Now, Ranken is preparing to l...

The social and economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has given us a once-in-a-century opportunity to make a gr...
08/10/2020

The social and economic devastation wrought by the coronavirus has given us a once-in-a-century opportunity to make a great leap forward in how we prepare people for the world of work. Read Jason Gaulden's take on how to make this happen.

The rapid change is leading to mounting demands — including from typically opposing groups, like Republicans and Democrats, and business executives and labor leaders — for training programs for millions of workers. On their own, some of the proposals are modest.

At the Untapped Potential Project, we are committed to bringing back the 21st Century equivalent of shop class, but on a...
08/10/2020

At the Untapped Potential Project, we are committed to bringing back the 21st Century equivalent of shop class, but on a much grander scale.

While Career and Technical Education has made something of a comeback, at least in parts of the country, it still lags woefully behind demand for training for skilled, well-paying jobs.

Our board chair is modest, but we're going to brag about her anyway.
08/10/2020

Our board chair is modest, but we're going to brag about her anyway.

Karin Norington-Reaves is UPP's board chair. Let this post serve as a brief introduction to this extraordinary woman.

See this post from Jason Gaulden on an inspiring school leader of color!
08/10/2020

See this post from Jason Gaulden on an inspiring school leader of color!

Kayon Pryce is the inspirational leader of Brooklyn STEAM Center, one of the most cutting edge educational programs in the country.

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